Oct. 26: Reading: Nell Bernstein All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated

This 15-year-old boy in San Jose's Juvenile Hall slashed his arms because, he says, he hasn't had a visitor in six months. (Photo by Joseph Rodriguez)

Oct. 26, 7PM

Reading: Nell Bernstein "All Alone in the World"

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In All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated, award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein takes an intimate look at the parents and children torn apart by the American penal system. She examines how the current American penal system strips poor communities of familial bonds and contributes to unemployment,
untreated addiction and reincarceration.